plain(s) hunter

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who took part in buffalo hunts.

Quotations

1831

The plains hunters have had a very successful season and the quantity of [country] provisions they have brought home is immense.

1860

Its population is about 1,200, exclusive of the plain-hunters, who reside there only occasionally.

1930

The Desjardins were quite wealthy plain hunters. . . .